Rehabbing an Aggressive Australian Shepherd

We all had had a good week, this week. We got to play with the puppies at Sandy's house on Wednesday. They sure are growing up fast. I notice a change every week. I weighed Chris and she is weighing in at 19 pounds now, and getting harder to pick up.Now that she is eating more food, I had to change her bowl to an adult size Bella bowl. She is now eating out of the same size bowl that the two adult Border collies are eating out of. In order to portion her food correctly and be able to tell …

We spent Labor Day weekend at the Pleasanton, CA Scottish Games. The Caledonian Club of San Francisco hosted one of the largest Scottish Games in the country and we were there smack dab in the middle of it. They like to run a small arena sheepdog trial, which is a big draw for the spectators.We brought all three of the girls, Kate, Tam and Christian. All of the border collies there were constantly being petted by everyone as they passed through our area. In fact, it was difficult to potty th …

I have been working with a McNab, an isolated line of Border collie originally from Oregon. He was here for recall lessons. He is fine in the house, but get him outside and he apparently shined on everybody and did what he wanted to do.Today was his second lesson. He was doing great healing without making the leash taunt. His recalls were pretty good also, but not perfect. But that was to be expected, as it has only been 4 days since his first lesson.Things were going pretty well and then I …

Wednesday is usually dog day for the girls and I. We usually meet a small group of dogs and their owners for agility play, herding and swimming. Good socialization is one of the outcomes of these meetings.This week we ended up having a bunch of puppies over for puppy socialization. There were 4, 10 week old Aussies, a 12 week old Golden, a 17 week old Golden, which towered over all of the puppies, and Christian, a now 14 week Border collie. When they got to play together, Chris kept leaving …

The last of the week has been relatively quiet. On Tuesday, I just could not leave Christian outside without me being out there with her. I didn't want to take any chances of loosing her again. She spent much of the day inside with me, as it was pretty hot out.We went to dog day on Wednesday. Sandy, my friend who owns the property where we all assemble, has a new Australian Shepherd named Indy. He is a cute red merle with pretty long hair already. He is now vaccinated enough to be able to …